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World carbon emissions rising again, with China main culprit
From the Washington Post. And the New York Times.
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Global climate talks begin in Poland
Scientists from around the world are meeting to try to work out details for the fossil fuel emissions goals agreed to in 2015 Paris climate agreement. New York Times story.
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Sobering U.N. Report on Climate Change
A couple of days ago, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, representing 91 top climate change researchers from 40 countries, released their long-awaited report on global climate change and the possibilities for topping rising temperatures at 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. This was a report that some vulnerable nations had requested after a…
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Doomsday clock edges closer to midnight
Citing looming threats of nuclear war and global warming, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced today that they had moved the minute hand of their Doomsday Clock to two minutes before midnight— "30 seconds closer to catastrophe." You can read their statement here.
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Congress refuses to replace ailing polar satellites monitoring global warming
The Republican majority in Congress has blocked a U.S. sea-ice monitoring program that supplies data to scientists worldwide about the world's dwindling sea ice levels. Story here.
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Alaska’s permafrost is thawing
Permafrost is ground that remains frozen year after year. This article in the New York Times predicts that Alaska's permafrost could be gone by 2050. Bloomberg reports that he thawing permafrost has buckled segments of the Alaska Highway, the key artery connecting the state with Canada and the northwestern U.S.
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Vatican Conference on biological extinction sounds the alarm
World scientists will gather next week to discuss the problem of resource consumption. The meeting aims to connect the dots between social behavior and ecosystem destruction. Read the story in The Guardian.
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